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Died #OnThisDay in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista #Moroni (ca. 1520/4-79)
Portrait of a Lady, possibly Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ("La Dama in Rosso"), 1556-60
#ItalianRenaissance
Died #OnThisDay in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista #Moroni (ca. 1520/4-79)
Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, 1560
#ItalianRenaissance
Born #OnThisDay in 1617: Southern Netherlandish painter #JanThomas van Ieperen (1617-73)
Portrait of Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein (1623-1690) on horseback in a ballet costume, ca. 1667
#SouthernNetherlandishArt #Baroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, #marquisedeSévigné (1626-96)
Portrait after Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder (1612-89), 17th Century
#Sévigné #FrenchLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, #marquisedeSévigné (1626-96)
Portrait by #ClaudeLefèbvre (1632-75), ca. 1665
#Sévigné #FrenchLiterature
“Illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts…”
The exciting, multifaceted + outrageous Futurist Manifesto published #onthisday 1909
"Dynamism of A Soccer Player" Umberto Boccioni #italybyclemente #italianarttour #boccioni #marinetti #futurism #italianmodernart
Born #onthisday1808 Carl Spitzweg German #Romanticist #painter Viewed as 1of the most important Biedermeier era artists Later #paintings & drawings are often humorous #genrepaintings with many of his works depicting sharply characterized eccentrics like The Hypochondriac (1865)
https://t.co/oMdsJVzAby
Fernand Leger - Acrobats and clowns - 1950
#art #arthistory #ArtLovers #DonneInArte #painting #museum #culture #ArteYArt #ScrivoArte #DonneAmiche #Artwit #ontheblog #OnThisDay
#quoteoftheday
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening."
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) #bornonthisday in what is now #Pittsburgh.
#quotes #quotesoftheday #quotesaboutlife #quotestoliveby #quotesdaily #authors #books #botd #fear
Born #OnThisDay in 1862: Anglo-American artist #JamesJebusaShannon (1862-1923)
Portrait of Lady Barber in a Landscape, 1912
#AmericanArt #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1862: Anglo-American artist #JamesJebusaShannon (1862-1923)
Portrait of #MaryWindsor, Princess Royal (1897-1965), 1914
#AmericanArt #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1761: German-Baltic noble, salonnière and diplomat #DorotheavonMedem (1761-1821), Duchess of Courland
Portrait with daughters Wilhelmine and Pauline by Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724-96), before 1783
#DorotheaofCourland #DorotheavonKurland #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1761: German-Baltic noble, salonnière and diplomat #DorotheavonMedem (1761-1821), Duchess of Courland
Portrait by #AngelicaKauffman (1741-1807), 1785
#DorotheaofCourland #DorotheavonKurland #WomenArtists
The city of #BuenosAires, Argentina, was founded #OnThisDay in 1536. Our cofounders the Blisses lived in the city for a number of years, notably when Robert served as ambassador. Here he poses with the British Chamber of Commerce in Argentina sometime in 1929-1933. #sundayfunday
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1711: Wenzel Anton, Prince of #Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-94), Austrian statesman under #Habsburg Emperors #MariaTheresa, #JosephII & #LeopoldII
Portrait by Jean-Étienne #Liotard (1702-89), 1762
#GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1650: #NellGwyn (1650-1687), mistress of #CharlesII
Portrait attributed to #SimonVerelst (1644-1721), ca. 1670
#Stuart #DutchArt #Baroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1611: #UlrikofDenmark (1611-33), son of King #ChristianIV
Portrait as a child by #JacobvanDoordt (fl. 1606-29), ca. 1615
#Oldenburg #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
#RosenborgSlot
Principal Sam's Calendar
February 2
Happy Birthday Fred Flintstone!!!
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Here's my first book: https://t.co/7ClmeYGrpY
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
Born #OnThisDay in 1707: Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), son of King #GeorgeII, father of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait by #CharlesPhilips (1708-47), 1737
#Hanover #BritishArt